MP'S CONDEMNED: An MP has hit out at Tory colleagues for "screaming like banshees" at Ed Balls for forgetting the full name of a businessman who backed Labour, saying their treatment of the shadow chancellor was "worse than the schoolyard". The Labour frontbencher was mocked at Prime Minister's Questions by David Cameron for forgetting the name of the man who chaired Labour's small business taskforce, identifying him only as "Bill". Liberal Democrat John Pugh slammed MPs' hypocrisy, saying colleagues are applauded for revealing their mental illness, but when Mr Balls had his own mental lapse he was barracked in the Commons.

HEART ATTACKS: Patients with the highest genetic risk of suffering a heart attack benefit the most from cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, a study has found. Those in intermediate and low-risk categories are still helped by statins, but to a lesser extent, according to researchers. Scientists analysed data on 49,000 participants in five studies. They found that patients in the highest risk category, as shown by their DNA, had a 70% higher risk of heart attacks than those with the lowest genetic risk.

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Liverpool-born Mark joined the Daily Post in January 2014 after seven years as editor of its Merseyside sister title the Liverpool Post. He started out as a weekly news reporter on Wirral Newspapers, and spent seven years at the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. He was The Press Association's regional correspondent for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire from 1983 to 1997, before returning to the ECHO as deputy news editor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including the UK Press Gazzette Regional Reporter of the Year award, and in 1993 wrote a book on the James Bulger murder.